...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.